brinded

comparative more brinded · superlative most brinded

1. archaicdialectalEspecially of the fur or skin of animals: having a patchy or streaky pattern, usually brown or grey in colour; brindled.

   Thrice the brinded Cat hath mew'd.

   c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 143, column 2

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   It is well known that the only wool susceptible of acquiring delicate and brilliant colours by the process of dyeing, is white wool: for this reason the Cachemirians separate all those lambs which are black or brinded.

   1804, Alexander le. Goux de Flaix, “Memoir on the Wool and Sheep of Cachemire and Boutam”, in Philosophical Magazine, page 240

   Glory be to God for dappled things— / For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; / For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim: […]

   1877, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Pied Beauty”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, →OCLC, page 30, lines 1–3

   Synonyms: mottled, tabby

2. dialectalFrowning, looking sour or angry.

   Lawks, doant be clummed by Babbin Enapp, 'Sa bibbling, boostering, brinded chap, A dinderhead hadge-boar!

   1867, William Frederick Rock, Jim and Nell: A Dramatic Poem in the Dialect of North Devon. By a Devonshire Man

1. A surname.